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Soho Hill

Many thanks Lyn and Viv for the confirmation of the position of photo #113. I lived about 5 minute's walk from Hamstead Road and walked around this junction regularly but I was unsure of quite where it was. I loved the photo.

Judy
 
hi carol...im afraid thats not the same spot..your pic was taken further up where soho hill meets with villa road...smashing photo..

lyn x
 
carolina said:
Sorry girls for duff info. I knew I had another one.View attachment 98334
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As a memory test (educational) can we start up a new thread tracking down adverts in images posted? Here's the one on the corner of Wretham Road. Not so sure if situating this design at this location is a good idea in likely causing collisions at road junctions...
 
Hi Carolina
Nice picture of the top of villa road facing st Michaels hill and I would have said the photographer is standing across the road on the very corner
Of st Michaels hill and behind them there wouldd a been a Victorian house and I would also say the gentleman closest was a police officier
Standing on the very close to the kerb waiting for the horse and carriage to turn on to Soho road
You may be aware at some point there was two churches been built on that very corner
Obviously saint Michaels was the first to be built but I cannot say the other one almost if facing st Michaels
In later years that corner shop had change hands and obvisiouly given the age of that photo which is cracking in deed
Some of those little house you see way back down the road looked small house but inside they was quite large and many rooms
In years gone bye I had the pleasure of going in, because my sister in law met a guy whom lived in them whom owned a business in Bacchus rd
Next to the pub and many years later in the sixties an old friend of mine took up lodging in there when is father died
And the council evicted him from a back house in Heath Street mind you it was very grottie unihabittle
But some one took his case on at the council and rehoused him to staple lodge road when it was nice and quite
I would say your picture was probaly some time in the 1800/ early 1900,s
My mother was sent to a private school around that neck of the woods way back in the 1900s I never learnt the name of it
But it was definitely a private school for girls she never ever went to a state council school in her life
Some where in the Hampstead road area the big houses her grand father used to have a large house she used to tell me
With those bells on the wall within the house
I was very familiar with Ha dsworth myself I used to be a milk man around that area in my younger days for midland counties milk
Covering most of hands worth and the surrounding street far back as grove lane and used to finish my round and sort my crates out
In order for the lads back at moland street for the checkers and as also I worked down st Michaels hill
There was the Birmingham bottle exchange as a nipper which was part of Birmingham history it was owned by a solicitor
And that exchanged covered the whole of the west midland they had six huge lorries out every day
As soon as I seen your picture I reckonised it straight away and the shop and as I mentioniond the other day about Soho red and our friend
Mentioniod the late night chippie about three shops from that there was the chip shop I had in mind but happily is shop he mentioned was the one
And not mind I used to go regular to the continental club just yards from where the photographer had taken that pic,
The conti was converted into a basement club of the building and the music they was playing was very any for today's ears
Have a nice day Astonian,,,, Alan,,,,,
 
Richie said:
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As a memory test (educational) can we start up a new thread tracking down adverts in images posted? Here's the one on the corner of Wretham Road. Not so sure if situating this design at this location is a good idea in likely causing collisions at road junctions...
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hi richie i dont see why not...why dont you start a thread..give it a title and start posting some old photos with adverts on them im sure they will bring back memories and be of interest.

all the best

lyn
 
Astonian the photo would have been taken at the top of Soho Hill and not St Michaels. There was a church in Wretham Road. (1910)
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I think Astonian means #120. This photo would have been taken from the top of St Michaels Hill, which faced Villa Road.
 
Hi jayell good morning yes
Many thanks for putting my case foreward it was indeed the one I was referring to the one I was in deed
That was showing ,for some reason some one is setting a pace on here in putting different pictures before anybody get to
Place a thread of reply and make any comment about it
This I have notice long before now its nice to know we are bombarded with pics of the old days gone bye and see the transformation
Of dear old brum its amazeing just how these pics have come to fore on this forum from out of the wood work especially
When we was struggling by the dozens daily and flying out at such a pace ,one cannot keep up with the changing of the pics
Before any one makes there replies may be its my imagination but every time I have made a comment the pics gone
And I am there for wrong with signals
Thanks jay for putting me correct on the picture that was there before the swift hand of change was done
Have a nice day jay best wishes Alan,,,,Astonian,,,,
 
carolina said:
Astonian the photo would have been taken at the top of Soho Hill and not St Michaels. There was a church in Wretham Road. (1910)
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carol what another great photo from you...new to me...i did not even know there was a church in wretham road...this one must have been taken looking towards soho hill..church no longer there but the shop you can see on the corner is the shop you can see on the left corner of my old photo on post 113...

lyn
 
carolina said:
Lynn I used to go to Sunday school in the afternoon there.
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carol i dont remember that church i was living about 3 streets away in villa st but i do have a map of the area on my other pc and i think i recall seeing sunday school marked out at the back of the church...new housing built on the ground now

lyn
 
Lynn there used be a cut out at the side of the churchb where you could get through to another street, but I cant think of the name

It was Charville Road/Hamstead Road.
 
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carolina said:
Lynn there used be a cut out at the side of the churchb where you could get through to another street, but I cant think of the name

It was Charville Road/Hamstead Road.
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lol carol i can just imagine you climbing walls or fences to get to the other street or was it just a little walk through ?
 
All the missing photo on the thread have now been replaced by the original posters or by the efforts of the moderation team with images the same as or as near possible to the originals.
 
hello dib44 and thanks for those photos...i must say i can not remember seeing them before and right im racking my brains out as to where about on soho hill they were taken...if anyone can pinpoint the exact locations that would be great...at first glance i thought the white building in pic 1 was the pally but its not..

lyn
 
not sure bri...soho hill didnt go as far as grove lane did it...think it ended at villa road and then became soho road...ive just looked on the barra site and there were 5 deaths and 1 injury at no 112 and 114 soho hill and 1 death at no 144 so maybe a clue..i can make out on pic 1 the national provincial bank and to the left a company named pearks ?? will have to do a bit of research when i have more time...

lyn
 
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Soho Hill did not stop at Grove Lane, but at Villa Road. From thereonin, it was Soho Road. I think the photof of the National Provincial Bank was Soho Road.
 
The white building mention is a Burtons shop at 200 Soho Rd and not Soho Hill, dib44 was looking to replace 2 photo that were lost earlier in the thread and thought that these were they.
 
thanks for those 2 cracking photos richie...the 2nd one has a building on the right hand side with like an arch over it....not sure yet but i think that is still there and is either the market hall or snooker hall entrance..

lyn
 
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